La Scala’s season premiere Friday of a new production of Verdi’s “Attila” takes on contemporary themes of male leaders selling out to self-interest while the final act of heroism falls to a woman.
Read moreAfter more than 125 performances in “The Nutcracker” in Rhode Island, a 19-year-old Yorkshire terrier named Archie is leaving the stage.
Read moreRussia’s arguably best-known contemporary theater and film director pleaded not guilty Wednesday as his fraud trial opened in Moscow.
Read moreAmericans are increasingly turning to festivals, musicals and other venues for entertainment, and while large swathes of adults still read fiction or go to the movies, a new study found interest in those art forms is in decline.
Read moreA federal judge has advanced one of three lawsuits against an investment bank tied to the $81 million ticket-resale scam involving the Broadway musical “Hamilton.”
Read moreA complicated copyright case involving one of the world’s great authors and the character Zorro received a little more clarity Friday, thanks to a federal judge’s ruling.
Read moreForeclosing the chance that Aaron Sorkin’s Broadway adaptation of “To Kill a Mockingbird” would see a courtroom preview, producers and the estate of Harper Lee announced Thursday that they settled their artistic differences.
Read moreGranting a Broadway production company’s request to move a lawsuit over its stage adaption of “To Kill a Mockingbird” from Alabama to New York, a federal judge said Monday that a live courtroom performance could be needed to decide the case.
Read moreHollywood producer Scott Rudin’s theater company filed a $10 million countersuit against the estate of author Harper Lee for trying to block an upcoming stage adaptation of “To Kill a Mockingbird,” and offered a courtroom performance featuring actor Jeff Daniels as Atticus Finch.
Read moreThe representative of the estate of famed American author Harper Lee sued a New York theater production company, accusing it of changing too much in its upcoming stage adaptation of “To Kill a Mockingbird.”
Read moreMoviePass, the subscription-based movie ticket service, filed a lawsuit against competitor Sinemia for patent infringement on Friday, claiming that the rival company offers a service that’s “remarkably similar.”
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A trade group for Broadway producers served up a federal complaint dripping with drama Tuesday, accusing the Teamsters union and eight casting companies of staging a “casting cartel” that has wrought devastation on the Great White Way.
Read moreA San Diego attorney says two deputy city attorneys serving on the board of the San Diego Junior Theater failed to comply with “mandatory reporting” requirements when they learned of sexual abuse allegations against some of the theater’s teachers.
Read moreLeaving coal in the stocking of Dr. Seuss Enterprises, a federal judge found no copyright infringement in a ribald off-Broadway satirist’s take on “How the Grinch Stole Christmas.”
Read moreA white Second City actor sued the famous Chicago comedy club, claiming he was cut from a show after complaining that a black cast member called him “White Jesus” and said she wishes that all white people were dead.
Read moreThe creator of a musical about the masked vigilante Zorro can move ahead with a lawsuit claiming the character is in the public domain, and that a company purporting to own the rights to Zorro is wrongly deterring the musical from making its stage debut.
Read moreOn the heels of securities charges over a ticket-resale scheme involving the Broadway megahit “Hamilton,” a class of shareholders blames due-diligence failures by Tripoint Global Equities for buoying a Ponzi scheme that has quickly become known as “Hamilcon.”
Read moreIn a federal complaint against Dr. Seuss Enterprises, a New York playwright wants damages for shutting down his raunchy, off-Broadway parody of “The Grinch Who Stole Christmas.”
Read moreThe French heir to a 1952 play about the Romanov princess Anastasia is fighting in federal court to squeeze the brakes on a Broadway adaptation by Tony-winning playwright Terrence McNally.
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